Tippecanoe County officials are contacting some West Lafayette voters who cast their ballots early, after a computer error gave them the wrong ballot. Tippecanoe County Clerk Christa Coffey says 94 voters in Wabash Township, which contains West Lafayette, received ballots containing the wrong city council race, thanks to a software error in the computer voting system the county employs. Coffey says the error was pinpointed Sunday after multiple people kept insisting their ballot was incorrect, even though the registration indicated they were in the right district. “After three or four of those calls, I decided to go out and watch what was happening,” she says. “That’s when I discovered that for certain splits within Wabash, the voters’ file was directing it through the program behind the scenes to give them the wrong ballot.” Election workers were able to override the system and have since been using the correct ballots. Coffey says her department has the voters’ information and is
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